<p>Is studying with music on preferably? Or not?</p>
<p>It depends on music I think. If the music is something like classic, then it might be preferable. But I can't study when I'm listening to my favourite musics like rock, techno, and even They Might Be Giants! They're too distructing!</p>
<p>Music can help me focus on what I'm doing, and not what's going on around me (particularly helpful during work-time in class or the library), but it has to be a CD that I've heard many times. If it's a brand new CD, I'll be listening to the lyrics or whatever, and not concentrating on my work!</p>
<p>Yeah it's kinda necessary when I'm doing boring stuff like defining terms, but studying studying .. unless it's on low .. super low .. then no, I can't. But working in complete utter silence is kinda distracting too. I'm used to something going on, like siblings yelling downstairs, etc. If nothing is happening, I put the music on really low so I don't fall asleep
Like even at the library, people are coming in and out, some are whispering, etc so it's not complete silence ya know</p>
<p>Yeah, music helps when I study too. Like sarorah said, dead silence is a distraction for me. I'll play anything as long as it has a slow beat....fast paced songs like anything I could dance to would be a distraction too lol. Because then I would get up and dance and sing...and not do my work which is very bad. I just like soft sounding music if I study...something like the Postal Service/Coldplay/Keane or something turned down (if I have to concentrate really hard like taking notes). But I can work with other types....depends on how well I know the material:D</p>
<p>I listen to fast paced music esp when studying maths and sciences because that just requires understanding. I need total silence for English, history, social sciences and stuff because that requires a lot of memorising.</p>
<p>But in the library, I ALWAYS need my mp3 player because I get distracted sooo quickly: just watching people pick out books, looking at their clothes style and making fun of it in my head, trying to see if that guy is hot or not, etc..</p>
<p>But I also get distracted when I'm in complete silence - my nails. They ahsjfsnfjengjengmdf!@#$@$!&*!)(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always pick at them. And that takes about 20min!</p>
<p>The only subject where I listen to music and study at the same time is math.</p>
<p>For some reason it helps me concentrate and focus. But if I tried to listen to music while reading a book for English or history, then I wouldn't be able to do it.</p>
<p>haha nofx, complete silence also bugs me, but i need it when it comes to reading things for english or history. i always listen to music when im doing math.</p>
<p>Music + Math = GOOD</p>
<p>Science sometimes works, but there is too much language and reading. Chem kinda works, but not bio.</p>
<p>I always listen to music when i'm studying. Programming music is usually instrumental stuff or industrial. Rammstein, NIN and Royksopp are the usuals for that. Studying maths... usually power/melodic metal. Sonata Arctica, Hammerfall, Rhapsody, Nightwish. Languages... well Japanese... J-rock :)</p>
<p>If I'm doing English or history work, I cannot concentrate if there is music...</p>
<p>rainbow kirby, what exactly is industrial? Any connection with indie rock?</p>
<p>Industrial = bands like Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails. It's rock with a raw edge, and often fast-paced with a good beat.</p>
<p>This song will help you get any math/science/grunt work done:</p>
<p>Microbe - Xit 2 Nowhere (Full Intention Mix)</p>
<p>Yes, it's electronic...but it also helped me do a p-set of 100 problems in about an hour.</p>
<p>I always study with my music on. I can'c concentrate on some things like english, social or science if there isn't a little bit of music on. I can do math without music no problem. I could do the other subjects without music too, but I find that it helps me to concentrate. I don't know, that's just me.</p>
<p>I sometimes study with my music on. I turn it down low though, since it can get a bit distracting (Children of Bodom, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, etc). When I need instrumental music, I listen to Apocalyptica because it's classical music that sounds like metal. Keeps me awake but not so loud that I get distracted.</p>
<p>I absolutely have to have music on when I do hw or study. It's the same when I sleep as well - the quieter it is, the harder it is for me to sleep, so sometimes I'll have rock playing lol. </p>
<p>I can't stand listening to songs that I've heard on the radio a dozen times while studying so when I'm at home, I'll usually have a stream of this</a> stuff or some other obscure music I find on the net playing.</p>
<p>I turn on a fan. Somehow, my practice SAT score improved 100 pts that day...
Haha. but having something in the background humming is nice because dead silence is distracting.</p>
<p><em>high-fives yanners</em>
Blind Guardian, CoB and Nightwish rock! :)</p>
<p>YEAH!!! MUSIC!!!!
In my opinion, as long as the song doesn't have understandable words, you should listen to it while studying because if your FULL concentration is on your work....it's hard to concentrate you know? ^---^</p>